The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival (BCMF) in
Bridgehampton,
New York, was founded in 1984 by New Zealand-born flutist
Marya Martin and her husband, Manhattan businessman Kenneth Davidson. The festival presents 13 concerts of
chamber music from the end of July to the end of August every summer, and features some of the world's finest musicians. Regular performers include:
Ani Kavafian,
Anthony Marwood
Anthony Marwood is a British solo violinist.
Early life
He was born 6 July 1965 to Michael Travers Marwood and Anne née Chevallier. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford. He then studied at the Royal Academy of Music and t ...
,
Frank Huang
Frank Xin Huang (born September 5, 1978) is a Chinese-born American violinist and teacher. Since 2015 he has been the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Previous to his position in New York, Huang was the first violinist of the Ying Qua ...
,
Jennifer Frautschi,
Amy Schwartz Moretti,
Cynthia Phelps
Cynthia Phelps (born 1961 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) is an American violist whose versatile career involves work as a chamber musician, solo artist, and orchestral musician. Phelps is currently the Principal Violist of the New York P ...
, Richard O'Neill,
Carter Brey
Carter Brey (born 1954) is an American cello virtuoso. He had a prolific solo career from 1981 until 1996 when he became the principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic, a position he still holds today.
Biography
Carter Brey was born in Montc ...
, Clive Greensmith,
Peter Stumpf (cellist),
Joyce Yang, Gilles Vonsattel,
Orion Weiss Orion Weiss (born November 8, 1981) is an American classical pianist.
Academia
Weiss began his musical studies at thPreucil School of Music in Iowa City, Iowa When his family moved to Lyndhurst, Ohio, he continued his piano studies with Carol Lubet ...
,
Donald Palma
Donald Palma is a prominent classical double bassist, conductor, bass instructor, and educator of ensemble performance. He is a native of New York City, and is a graduate of the Juilliard School. Palma studied with several noted bassists including ...
, Stewart Rose, Bridget Kibbey and Shane Shanahan, among many others.
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival – About Us
2015 marked the inaugural BCMF Spring series with two concerts (March and April) that featured BCMF-regular musicians as well as the Miró Quartet
The Miró Quartet is an internationally performing professional classical string quartet based in Austin, Texas. The group is the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Texas and its members are on the faculty of the Butler School of Music. ...
.
The majority of BCMF's concerts take place in the historic Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, with two other concerts at the Bridgehampton Museum and Parrish Art Museum
The Parrish Art Museum is an art museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron Architects and located in Water Mill, New York, whereto it moved in 2012 from Southampton Village. The museum focuses extensively on work by artists from the artist colony o ...
.
References
Classical music festivals in the United States
Chamber music festivals
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